Coilover fitting....

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Fingers crossed my GAZ coilovers should be arriving at some point today. If Anyone has any advice or tips/common problems when fitting them it would be much appreciated, am imaging its pretty straight forward, but somehow when it comes to renaults things never seem to go smoothly. lol.

Cheer

Adam

 

[biojo]

long as u have a inpact wrench thing , it should be a piece of piss

 

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Havent got one of them no, but the cars only 9months old so the bolts shouldnt be too hard to shift!!

 

[ben_p]

have u got a scat sheet?

 

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What fcuk is a scat sheet?? You windin me up....?

 

[biojo]

you dont know what a scat sheet is and yer fitting them yer self

 

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^^

I do now!! lol. Ben you f**ker!!:evil:

 

[Andy GDI]

i take it you have spring compressors.? tp remove the old springs.

 

[Turkish]

Dont need spring compressors on a 172 or 182 Andy, and i thought you were a pro. As above no special tools as such but the front topmounts will ideally need a swan neck spanner so you can put an allen key into the top of the strut to stop it spinning in the body of the car.

 

[biojo]

spring compressers are handy , as when i did mine n u take the nut off top of old springs it does spring out towards u , no bigg though.

they also came inhandy when the coilovers were faulty n didnt fit

 

[Turkish]

They're required on a non sport but on a 172/182 there is no need at all. Fred has done dozens of cars and not used them, and ive swapped over a couple of sets and not used them, save the money for getting the alignment done afterwards.

 

[Dan Page]

i dint need spring compressors to fit mine on my 1.2!

 

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Cheers for the above guys gonna start them now.

 

[ben_p]

hahahahahahhhahaha

 

[matty w]

Cheers for the above guys gonna start them now.

i'm not telling you too suck eggs but i'd get the coilovers set-up properly once you've fitted them, the amount of people who have coilovers just so they ca drop it on its arse is unreal i had mine laser levelled and the handling is awsome

 

[spirez]

Quick question about coilovers, does it affect the tracking everytime you lower or raise the ride height?

 

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i'm not telling you too suck eggs but i'd get the coilovers set-up properly once you've fitted them, the amount of people who have coilovers just so they ca drop it on its arse is unreal i had mine laser levelled and the handling is awsome

Cheers I'd panned to. Theyre not there for the drop, more the handling.

Only done half cause of renault.... See the thread in clio discussion

 

[edde]

Quick question about coilovers, does it affect the tracking everytime you lower or raise the ride height?

Yes, although most people set to one height and never adjust it so its not an issue.
The back is fixed though so no adjustment availiable (you can use shims but you shouldn't need to).

 

[Phill1978]

i'm not telling you too suck eggs but i'd get the coilovers set-up properly once you've fitted them, the amount of people who have coilovers just so they ca drop it on its arse is unreal i had mine laser levelled and the handling is awsome

laser aligned you mean ? is that the same as laser levelled

 

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Yes, although most people set to one height and never adjust it so its not an issue.
The back is fixed though so no adjustment availiable (you can use shims but you shouldn't need to).

Not on the back?? Is adjustable for hieght on the GAZ set up.

 

[Friction]

lol, he meant no geometry adjustment... ie toe, camber, etc

 

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Yeah made sense when I re-read it. lol.
Not the most technical person!!